I must add to this thread that I showed the online downloadable files to my husband (a former Boy Scout). His response: “What good is that? You have to print
out 300 plus pages to read it.” Okay. He’s very old school. He retires (again) at the end of July. I, too, like the hard copy form – it’s so much easier (for us old fogies) to flip through and quickly explore the paper version.
I’m also going to show these books to our FabLab director who is both an artist and a tech wizard. He’s been very keen on having how-to instructional materials
on the old ways…
Thank you, Michael, for bringing these items to our attention!
Leslie Wagner
Associate Archivist
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
817-272-6209
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It looks like I don't need to keep these original books, and I don't need to scan anything. Anyone who wishes to have the pages can get them from the internet. A little bit of exploring brought these links
to light:
The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things 16,343k (Google Books)
https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthin00cogoog
The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things 17,760K (Gutenberg Project)
https://archive.org/details/theboymechanicvo12655gut
(I'd go with the Google Books version of Book 1. Gutenberg Project re-typesets the whole thing and pagination is lost.)
The Boy Mechanic: Book 2, 1000 things 32,308K
https://archive.org/details/boymechanicbook200chic2
The Boy Mechanic: Book 3, 800 things 33,083K
https://archive.org/details/boymechanic03popu
What I had in mind in the beginning was a small book with a title something like
The Boy Mechanic Maps the Neighborhood. Included in it would not only the cartography articles but also the articles about making the tools and whatever can be found about tricks with math (I found at least one). Someone else would have to do it, though,
because I lack the software to take the PDFs apart and re-assemble the articles into a single document. In an ideal world, the whole thing might be tested by a school, and the testing managed by someone who's on this list. Does anyone know of a middle-school
administrator who'd like to work with this idea?
Michael Holt
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